These resources from the NAP Global Network and links to other relevant sources provide background information and tools relevant to the NAP process.
Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Progress and promising examples
NAP Global Network Synthesis Report, 2021–2022
This document is the third in a series of synthesis reports that assess progress on gender-responsive approaches in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes at the global level. The progress shown in this report demonstrates the potential of NAP processes as a mechanism for ensuring that climate action addresses gender and social inequalities.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka
This case study is part of a series of briefs focusing on alignment of country efforts under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
sNAPshot | Strategic Communications for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
This sNAPshot policy brief introduces the topic of strategic communications to support National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes.
Developing National Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: A Guidebook
This guidebook is intended for decision makers and technical advisors involved in the development of national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for adaptation, particularly in developing and middle-income countries. Its objective is to guide decision making regarding the purpose, design, operationalization, and use of results of an appropriate system for national M&E of adaptation. Given […]
Introduction to Adaptation in the Global Stocktake
Assessing collective progress on adaptation at the international level
This brief seeks to demystify the Global Stocktake process under the Paris Agreement and explain how it can strengthen adaptation ambition at the global level.
Primera Comunicación sobre la Adaptación de México ante la Covención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático
Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) y Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático (INECC), Gobierno de México
Este documento integra los avances, retos y oportunidades que desarrolla e identifica México en materia de adaptación al cambio climático.
Opportunities for Strengthening Resilience by Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
This analysis provides a better understanding of the ways in which countries are integrating climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) solutions in their efforts to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)—as well as the missed opportunities.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
Exploring a pathway for realizing rights and resilience to climate change
Informed by a review of the literature on climate change, adaptation, and SRHR, this report explores the extent to which NAP processes recognize the linkages between climate change adaptation and the realization of SRHR, including maternal and newborn health, voluntary modern contraception, and gender-based violence.
Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Action Through National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
NAP Global Network Synthesis Report, 2019–2020
This report aims to help countries engaged in NAP processes use a gender-responsive approach, regardless of where they are in the process.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Kenya
This case study is part of a series of briefs focusing on alignment of country efforts under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Colombia
This case study is part of a series of briefs focusing on alignment of country efforts under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Facilitating Peer Learning with Adaptation Policy-Makers
Approaches and insights from the NAP Global Network’s Targeted Topics Forums
This guide is for people that want to hold inclusive, participatory events in which different stakeholders come together to collectively generate ideas and identify actions they will take to make progress toward adaptation. It will help move away from presentation-heavy meetings and invite people to think and plan differently for their next event.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development | Overview Brief 2
Getting Started on Alignment
The brief explores how the different agendas and policy processes relate to each other and to a country’s national development planning processes. It describes the enabling factors for alignment and discusses how alignment objectives can be defined. Further, the brief outlines key questions that can help to identify entry points for alignment, recognizing that different approaches to alignment may be relevant and feasible in specific contexts and at particular points in time.
The Role of the NAP Process in Advancing the Implementation of the Adaptation Goals Under the Paris Agreement
This workshop report shares key messages delivered during the Peer Learning Summit on the role of the NAP process in advancing the implementation of adaptation goals under the Paris Agreement. It also provides a summary of the presentations and results from the discussions and interactions.
This summit was co-hosted by the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning of the Government of Thailand and the National Adaptation Plan NAP Global Network, held in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 1 and 2, 2018.
sNAPshot | Colombia’s Progress in Developing a National Monitoring and Evaluation System for Climate Change Adaptation
Building on an earlier overview brief, this sNAPshot describes the development of the National Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system for adaptation in Colombia and shares lessons learned and the next steps in the process.
Peruvian National Communicators Workshop Report
This report summarizes the first Peruvian National Communicators Workshop held in Lima, Peru, on September 6—7, 2018. This event was part of the participatory process led by the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) to develop the regulation for the country’s Framework Law of Climate Change. The workshop was a milestone in communications for climate change adaptation […]